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25. If you could have dinner with anyone in history, who would it be & what would you eat?
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It's really hard to narrow this down.
& why does it matter what we eat?
This man.
Delbert Cearley, my grandfather.
When it comes down to it, he's the man I wish I knew more than anyone else.
He died when I was really little.. I can't even tell you how old I was.
Young enough to not really be able to grasp what death was.
Too young to understand why mommy & daddy were crying
& too young to remember a funeral. I don't even know if I went actually.
All I know is that when I hear stories about this man, I long to know him too.
I've always imagined him as a gentle giant;
Hard in his old-fashioned ways with a soft spot for his grandkids.
It's an odd thing to describe, loving a man that you've never really met.
But that I do.
Just hearing the way my mother speaks about him & seeing the woman he raised up,
that's all I need to know to know that I would have adored him.
& you know what we'd eat?
That scary-ass sword fish he caught that hung above the couch in their den.
...that way it wouldn't have scared me all those years.
& why does it matter what we eat?
Delbert Cearley, my grandfather.
When it comes down to it, he's the man I wish I knew more than anyone else.
He died when I was really little.. I can't even tell you how old I was.
Young enough to not really be able to grasp what death was.
Too young to understand why mommy & daddy were crying
& too young to remember a funeral. I don't even know if I went actually.
All I know is that when I hear stories about this man, I long to know him too.
I've always imagined him as a gentle giant;
Hard in his old-fashioned ways with a soft spot for his grandkids.
It's an odd thing to describe, loving a man that you've never really met.
But that I do.
Just hearing the way my mother speaks about him & seeing the woman he raised up,
that's all I need to know to know that I would have adored him.
& you know what we'd eat?
That scary-ass sword fish he caught that hung above the couch in their den.
...that way it wouldn't have scared me all those years.
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